Rereading Global Socialist Cultures After the Cold War

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Rereading Global Socialist Cultures After the Cold War The Reassessment of a Tradition

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Dubravka Juraga, M. Keith Booker

Book Code: C7489

ISBN: 0-275-97489-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97489-3

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224 pages, N/A

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 6/30/2002

List Price: $95.00 (UK Sterling Price: £54.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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...libraries supporting specialists in literary theory will find it useful.
—Choice February 2003

Description: During the Cold War, the West typically represented socialism as a threat to genuine aesthetic achievement. Nonetheless, socialist cultures have produced a rich and varied body of creative works, and socialism continues to be a living force in China and in many regions of the Third World. The essays in this volume begin to reassess the legacy of socialist cultural production in such areas of the world, which were outside the specific scope of influence of either the United States or the Soviet Union during the Cold War era. The contributors give special attention to the strong anticolonial legacy of socialism and the important role played by socialism in subsequent attempts to build viable postcolonial cultural identities. Included are chapters on creative works from China, Africa, and the Caribbean, as well as the works of multicultural artists from the United States who stand in relation to Third World cultures. The essays show that global socialist cultural production was rich and varied during the twentieth century and continues to be so, despite the tribulations experienced by socialism itself. While some of the chapters address theoretical concerns central to all socialist cultures, the volume focuses primarily on socialist cultures in those parts of the globe that were never fully inside either the Soviet or the American bloc.

Table of Contents:

Introduction by Dubravka Juraga and M. Keith Booker
The Political Logic of Cosmopolitanism by Timothy Brennan
Against Premature Internationalism: Reasserting the Necessity of Nationalism for Socialist Liberation in the Age of Post-Theory by Tim Libretti
Revolutions in History and Memory: The Politics of Cultural Revolution in Historical Perspective by Arif Dirlik
What is "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics"?: Debates about Culture, Ideology, and Modernity in China in the 1990s by Liu Kang
Writing for the Wretched of the Earth: Frantz Fanon and the Radical African Novel by M. Keith Booker
"Structurally Adjusted Amnesia,": South Africa's Long March and Longer Walk by Barbara Harlow
Striking Images: Ralph de Boissiere's Australian Socialist Realism by Allan Gardiner

LC Card Number: 2001058949

LCC Class: HX531

Dewey Class: 306


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